Our couple bids

May 4

Today is going to be a busy day.

We have two bids coming in, we have Mike from Diablo Pools and Eric from Absolute.

First up Diablo Pools

a picture is worth a thousand words

so we got this from Mike

One thing we really liked was the way he lined the grass with the coping stones. we thought that looked very nice. He also had very nice landscaping.

However as we expected Diablo was really only looking at the pool part and did not bid any of the landscaping or side work. He did talk a lot about the various pool equipment and although we recognize that it is important - that was a little cart ahead of the horse for us.

When he left, we knew we were very unlikely to go with Diablo - at the end of the day we do think he would have built us a very nice pool and it would have been very well done - however of all of the people we talked too he was the least interested in the rest of the project and this is not a project that we wanted to have to deal with multiple contractors on.

Up next Eric from Absolute.

Eric's design was still one with the cover and any hopes of a cheap bid with the cover were out the window. His bid came in over 92k for just the pool and cover, no landscaping, no patio cover which meant more contractors and a total cost over 120. Plus he wore a Dodger hat again.

As the day comes to a close Absolute and Diablo are pretty much no longer in the running.